![]() ![]() His most recent book of poems, inspired by his own schooling in Ohio, is A Progressive Education (2014). He created a cast of over two thousand individual and identifiable characters, some of whom reappear in different novels. In more than ninety novels, he set forth French society and life as he saw it. It was a masterpiece destined for Mary de Medici, who sold it. Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) is generally credited as the inventor of the modern realistic novel. He has received a National Book Award for his translation of Les Fleurs du Mal and a Pulitzer Prize for Untitled Subjects, a collection of poetry. The beautiful panel represented a Saint Mary of Egypt about to pay her passage across the seas. RICHARD HOWARD is the author of seventeen volumes of poetry and has published more than one hundred fifty translations from the French, including, for NYRB, Marc Fumaroli's When the World Spoke French, Balzac's Unknown Masterpiece, and Maupassant's Alien Hearts. He organized his works into his masterpiece, La Comedie Humaine, which was the final result of his attempt to grasp the whole of society and experience into one varied but unified work. This short text was of tremendous importance in the world of art, for it holds a groundbreaking reflection about artistic creation: what does completion or failure mean, and how is it that technique does not guarantee either. ![]() ![]() Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) is generally credited as the inventor of the modern realistic novel. The Unknown Masterpiece, or 'Le chef-doeuvre inconnu', is a story by French author Honoré de Balzac. ![]()
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